Culture Index exists to catalog cultural institutions online, and highlight the best practices that inspire us.
Launching with a focus on museums and building from there, we are a resource for both research and discovery. Browse information about online communications, and discover ideas with examples of what’s possible for cultural institutions in the digital space.
As a community project facilitated by Base, we invite you to use and contribute to this growing resource.
The Shed
The Shed is a new cultural institution of and for the 21st century. We produce and welcome innovative art and ideas, across all forms of creativity, to build a shared understanding of our rapidly changing world and a more equitable society. In our highly adaptable building on Manhattan’s west side, The Shed brings together established and emerging artists to create new work in fields ranging from pop to classical music, painting to digital media, theater to literature, and sculpture to dance. We seek opportunities to collaborate with cultural peers and community organizations, work with like-minded partners, and provide unique spaces for private events.
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Google Analytics (GA4)
used by 285 institutionsGoogle's analytics platform that offers advanced tracking and analysis capabilities across web and app data for enhanced user behavior insights. Read moreFacebook Pixel
used by 191 institutionsA code snippet that tracks visitor actions on your website to optimize ad targeting and measure the effectiveness of Facebook advertising campaigns.
TikTok Pixel
used by 33 institutionsA tracking code that allows advertisers to measure the effectiveness of their TikTok ads by monitoring user actions on their website.
jQuery CDN
used by 35 institutionsA content delivery network that hosts jQuery and related libraries, allowing for quicker and more efficient access to these resources.
Amazon CloudFront
used by 21 institutionsA fast content delivery network service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency.
Unpkg
used by 42 institutionsA fast, global CDN for everything on npm, making it easy to load JavaScript modules and other files from the npm registry.
Nginx
used by 214 institutionsA high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy known for its stability, rich feature set, and low resource consumption. Read moreCowboy
used by 8 institutionsA small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP that is optimized for low latency and low resource usage.
Amazon Web Services
used by 107 institutionsA comprehensive cloud computing platform offering a wide range of services for computing, storage, databases, analytics, machine learning, and more.
Heroku
used by 10 institutionsA cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.
core-js
used by 329 institutionsA modular standard library for JavaScript that provides polyfills for ECMAScript features.
jQuery
used by 485 institutionsA fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversal, event handling, and animation.
Moment.js
used by 70 institutionsA JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates and times.
Flickity
used by 60 institutionsA JavaScript library for creating touch-enabled, responsive carousels and galleries.
Erlang
used by 8 institutionsA programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with high availability, known for its concurrency and fault-tolerance capabilities.
Mustache
used by 4 institutionsA logic-less template syntax for creating dynamic content by interpolating variables within templates.
Shopify
used by 86 institutionsA comprehensive e-commerce platform that allows businesses to create and manage online stores with various sales and marketing tools. Read more
